skipping breakfast - a quick rant

[squigglepink]

I found that I snacked without even being aware I was snacking. Being at home with the kids, it would be cereal for breakfast, then a sweet biscuit here and there, then tea all day long with milk, no sugar. Lunch, toasted sandwich or peanut better sandwich, easy food. Then a chocolate in the afternoon, then a good dinner with meat every night with veg or salad, sometimes custard or pudding after dinner. I honestly did not realise how much food I actually ate because my kids love to snack. Cereal bars are my favourite. I have always snacked rather than eating big meals because I am lazy. The only reason I had a good dinner is because my hubby loves to cook and he loves his meat.

Ha - i could have written this myself! My DH cooks our dinners too. He loves it.
LE opened my eyes to my constant snacking all day long! Didnt realise it otherwise!
I personally think the snacking and BD every other day is the way forward for blue swayers. But that could possibly be because i have two boys doing that and not necessarily the only two boyish things i had going for me at the time!!

[Pink Pony]

Funny, how us boy mums find so many things that we have in common when we break it down. It is so much easier to snack than make meals
Huge change for me being on LE, but I am used to it now. No snacking!!!!!

[squigglepink]

Funny, how us boy mums find so many things that we have in common when we break it down. It is so much easier to snack than make meals
Huge change for me being on LE, but I am used to it now. No snacking!!!!!

Yes, that is it!! I would put zero effort into my own meals!!! And even when i did slap a basic meal together i would be snacking 20 minutes later! I find it so bizarre that girl moms ttc boy have to remind themselves to snack!! But i guess that's like us having to remind ourselves to stop! Lol..

[Throwaway_panther]

My boys were different because with both I was snacking frequently - more like constant grazing really because by that point I was a SAHM so I had the pantry within easy reach. I always ate healthy but it was high protein. Breakfast would be oats, snacks would be a banana or almonds, lunch was salad and tuna, dinner was almost always red meat. Because I was ttc I never drank alcohol during the week and I also never drank coffee - always tea. I also went for a 45min brisk wall 4 days a week with the boys, no exercise at all when I got my DD. Also, I think the most detrimental thing that swayed blue for me was our multiple attempts. From CD 7 til I would get a positive OPK we dtd every second day. Then when I would get a positive OPK we would dtd that night and the next. I also never j&d, whereas I did j&d with my girl. Plus my boys were planned so I was highly focused on "getting pregnant" as I like to be efficient and not leave anything to chance, I like to get that egg first shot haha! Also I was taking prenatal vitamins with my boys but I wasn't when we conceived our daughter. So as you can see although I still ate meat and breakfast with my girl there was big differences everywhere else.

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I might follow your meal/snacks, those all sound doable to me! Especially since I did what you for DTD for your boys but got my girl.

Think of it this way TP, eating at regular intervals helps for blue. You don't want to go too long between meals- so it's all about snacking. You don't have to eat a lot of food at once, you just have to eat frequently. For my first 2 boys, I ate 1500-1800 calories but I had smallish meals because I had 2-3 small snacks throughout the day. I always included a protein of sorts for snacks. Think of keeping your blood sugar stable without spiking. I never had empty carbs. Fruit, nuts, veggies paired with cheeses, granola, meats with whole grains, etc. I never had coffee- I loved my green tea with either honey or lemon in the mornings, and I had sun tea (sun brewed black tea) with lemon in the afternoon. If I had a sweet tooth, I would have a full sugar soda with a meal, and I loved my beer! My beer at night was always paired with a small snack of a handful of nuts or jerky (I love venison jerky!!)

I hope this helps you! Feel free to PM me anytime! I could always use pink strategies, although it's gotten to be second nature for me now!!




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Thank you! I was doing so well getting into a snacking groove while pregnant, but I'm slipping back into longer gaps between meals with my DD -- so many moments of "Well I'll eat after I feed/play/change her" 😣

And I'd never recommend what I did for my daughter lol. 800 calorie days on top of 300+ minutes of exercise a week, one meal a day, no red meat ever, lots of coffee and alcohol. Had just gotten off BC too, and husband was stressed/defeated at work and smoking a weekly cigar. Perfect storm! Me getting pregnant first shot seems a little amazing with how much I've learned about fertility.

But you drinking beer for your boys is just what I like to hear, haha!

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[Throwaway_panther]

Yes, that is it!! I would put zero effort into my own meals!!! And even when i did slap a basic meal together i would be snacking 20 minutes later! I find it so bizarre that girl moms ttc boy have to remind themselves to snack!! But i guess that's like us having to remind ourselves to stop! Lol..

That's so me! Granted, I had an ED for over half of my life, but I'm so used to ignoring my hunger signs!

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[atomic sagebrush]

Damn, and here I thought finally eating breakfast after going without for over a decade would make a difference :/ Trying to work on incorporating more snacks at least for blue...

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EATING breakfast is a very good thing for blue swayers to do. We have to get over the idea that just because something is important for one set of swayers to do, that therefore the opposite is also equally effective/mandatory.

Blue swayers - eat breakfast if at ALL possible especially if you've gotten girls without it.
Pink swayers - skip it if you can, but it is just one small thing and NOT some cornerstone of LE Diet. You can do LE Diet WITHOUT skipping breakfast - the important things on LE Diet is sticking in the limits of the diet and getting more of your protein and fat intake from vegetable sources rather than animal, and not eating all day every day. There is a huge difference between eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and eating like a Hobbit, which many of us boy moms do..."First Breakfast, Second Breakfast, Elevensies, Lunch, Teatime, Dinner, Supper, Dessert, Bedtime Snack, Midnight Snack."

[familymatters]

I might follow your meal/snacks, those all sound doable to me! Especially since I did what you for DTD for your boys but got my girl.

I'm slipping back into longer gaps between meals with my DD -- so many moments of "Well I'll eat after I feed/play/change her" 😣

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PinkPony mentioned she would have a sweet biscuit and cup of tea here and there, and I used to do this too, so maybe make a point of trying to have a small snack every 2 hours (although I would have probably eaten something every hour) so say breakfast is 7am, I would have a cup of tea and a biscuit at 9am, handful of almonds at 10am, banana at 11am and then lunch at 12. I may not have had another snack til 2pm but it would have been a slice of cheese, maybe a few lollies or piece of chocolate at 3pm with another cup of tea, then dinner at 6pm (whilst I was making dinner I'd usually snack on the ingredients I was chopping up etc). So really it was constant grazing. The snacks don't have to be big, but they are usually high protein or sugary. I drank 3 cups of tea a day and if it wasn't black tea it was green tea. It is so foreign to me that someone could forget to have a snack haha, my brain is always thinking hmm what can I eat next??

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[Throwaway_panther]

PinkPony mentioned she would have a sweet biscuit and cup of tea here and there, and I used to do this too, so maybe make a point of trying to have a small snack every 2 hours (although I would have probably eaten something every hour) so say breakfast is 7am, I would have a cup of tea and a biscuit at 9am, handful of almonds at 10am, banana at 11am and then lunch at 12. I may not have had another snack til 2pm but it would have been a slice of cheese, maybe a few lollies or piece of chocolate at 3pm with another cup of tea, then dinner at 6pm (whilst I was making dinner I'd usually snack on the ingredients I was chopping up etc). So really it was constant grazing. The snacks don't have to be big, but they are usually high protein or sugary. I drank 3 cups of tea a day and if it wasn't black tea it was green tea. It is so foreign to me that someone could forget to have a snack haha, my brain is always thinking hmm what can I eat next??

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How big were you (or anyone else's) lunches and dinners? I feel like I need to eat half a sandwich at lunch to feel hungry enough to snack.

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[familymatters]

How big were you (or anyone else's) lunches and dinners? I feel like I need to eat half a sandwich at lunch to feel hungry enough to snack.

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Umm lunches were usually a salad and a can of tuna. So that's not big in my books. Dinner was usually a fairly decent size, maybe a 250gm steak with lots of buttery mash and green veggies. Or a big bowl of spaghetti bolg. Always always meat though. Chicken, beef, lamb. I've known in my family as a bottomless pit I have to admit. Yet I'm not overweight at all so even with all my snacking etc I usually consumed around 2000 cals

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[Pink Pony]

I used to drink so much tea - about 10 cups a day with full cream milk plus milk in cereal. I am quite sure my diet was mainly made up of protien. Every meal apart from breakfast, unless it was eggs, I had more protien, such a meat. Ham on sandwiches, chicken, steak, spagetti bolognese, curry, always meat!

I would have pasta maybe once a week. Bread for sandwiches, stayed away from potatos, so I would have been so over in calories with protien and constant snacking. It is easy just to snack on the run. Oh my tummy is rumbling just writing about all this food.

Honestly, try tea, with biscuits all day long. I never drank soda or alcohol.